Causality, Probability, and Time

Causality is a key part of many fields and facets of life, from finding the relationship between diet and disease to discovering the reason for a particular stock market crash. Despite centuries of work in philosophy and decades of computational research, automated inference and explanation remains an open problem. In particular, the timing and complexity of relationships has been largely ignored even though this information is critically important for prediction, explanation, and intervention. However, given the growing availability of large observational datasets including those from electronic health records and social networks, it is a practical necessity. This book presents a new approach to inference (finding relationships from a set of data) and explanation (assessing why a particular event occurred), addressing both the timing and complexity of relationships. The practical use of the method developed is illustrated through theoretical and experimental case studies, demonstrating its feasibility and success.

Author: Samantha Kleinberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/29/2018
Pages: 267
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781107686014

About the Author
Kleinberg, Samantha: - Samantha Kleinberg is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Computer Science and Physics from New York University.